False starts: the rhetoric of failure and the making of american modernism
Auteur :
Ball, David M.
Éditeur :
Northwestern University Press
ISBN :
9780810130005
Date de publication :
30 nov. 2014
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,7 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
468 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball’s magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to well-rehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature.